Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh is a vivid and compassionate account of the daily struggles faced by the working-class families of Lancashire during the devastating Cotton Famine of the 1860s. Drawing from his personal observations and interactions, Waugh paints a detailed portrait of the social, economic, and emotional hardships endured by factory workers when the American Civil War disrupted the supply of raw cotton to England’s textile mi...

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.**"Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement." —**New York TimesThe wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece—a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English ar...

Angels don’t say things like that….Cantor doesn’t want to go see the angel, even though she’s supposed to enhance his sparse magical skills; the process sometimes fails, badly, ending in insanity, or death. Unfortunately, the summons comes as a compulsion that can’t be ignored, so off he trundles.But when he arrives, things are not as they’re supposed to be. Angels are generally quiet, calm, and sure of themselves; Robin is angry and sarcastic. Wor...

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, most especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and Julia. The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the n...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a hilarious story of mistaken identity and a brilliantly irreverent satire of the hectic pursuit of hot news.**"Thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny." —**New York TimesLord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotti...

"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide.Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold l...

'Daisy Waugh's featherlight satires are as refreshing and uplifting as a glass of chilled vintage champagne. . . Imagine Agatha Christie on laughing gas' TimesThe Todes are back, and they're taking on Hollywood . . .When Hollywood wants to do a remake of the film that made Tode Hall famous, India and Egbert are delighted. They envisage a summer of free money and star-studded dinner parties ahead . . .But the Hall is soon ov...

From the moment the Syney Cricket Ground crowd gave Steve Waugh a hero’s reception, the second day of the fifth Ashes Test of 2002–03 evolved into one of Australian sport’s most special occasions … a perfect day.As he walked out to bat just before tea, Waugh knew his career was on the line. By the time the final ball of the day was about to be bowled, his reputation was restored; now he was within one stroke of his hundred. Waugh flayed the delivery to the boundary. This was one of...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a hilarious story of mistaken identity and a brilliantly irreverent satire of the hectic pursuit of hot news.**"Thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny." —**New York TimesLord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotti...

"A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" satirizes the generation of "Bright Young Things"—rich young people who dominated London high society in the 1920s ( Time ).Roaring Twenties London was the place to be—at least for the wealthy and well-connected of Great Britain. With the gossip columns recording everything from their parties to their scandals, writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and his glamorous, aristocratic fiancée Nina Bl...

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Handful of Dust movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I.**"Absolutely delightful" —**New York TimesAfter seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion t...

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.**"Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement." —**New York TimesThe wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece—a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English ar...